The Ananse Stroke Foundation
Ananse Keyboard for Ananse Stroke, a West African Writing System
Ananse Keyboard is a writing app and customizable symbol keyboard for creating, typing, saving, and sharing Ananse Stroke, a West African writing system. Try it in your browser and learn how its four letter families turn familiar alphabet sounds into a visual writing system.
Write with Ananse online
The web writer includes Family, QWERTY, and stroke layouts, Print and Cursive styles, predictions, ink colors, character designs, image saving, and note sharing.
Ananse keyboard apps for iPhone and Android
Ananse is also built for iPhone and Android with native writing interfaces and system keyboards. The Ananse apps include private end-to-end encrypted conversations; encryption stays inside the Ananse apps and is not added to third-party messaging services.
Culture, sound, shape, and personal expression
The Ananse Stroke system organizes letters into four sound families and supports visual, cultural, multilingual, and personalized expression. Canonical letters remain readable while Ananse glyph designs control how the writing appears locally.